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ACAS Asian Community AIDS Services

This is the official YouTube Account of Asian Community AIDS Services (ACAS). We are a charitable, non-profit, community-based organization located in Toronto, Canada.

OUR MISSION

We provide HIV/AIDS education, prevention, and support services to the East and Southeast Asian Canadian communities. Our programs are based on a pro-active and holistic approach to HIV/AIDS and are provided in a collaborative, empowering, and non-discriminatory manner.
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ACAS Asian Community AIDS Services
Presenters: Dr. Josephine Wong (RN, PhD) Harry Au (RSW, psychotherapist) Acceptance and Commitment to Empowerment (ACE) Acceptance and Commitment to Empowerment (ACE) is a proven integrated model of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Social Justice Capacity Building (SJCB) developed by Dr. Josephine Wong and Dr. Alan Li over the past 10 years. ACE combines ACT which addresses personal psychological resilience with SJCB to support people in community building, collective empowerment, and sustaining personal growth. Mental Health In An Asian Context An exploration of intergenerational trauma and Asian immigrant mental health from a perspective of both professional and lived experience, including topics such as filial piety, shame, and navigating our own needs, parentified children, the impact of emotionally immature parents, stigma in Asian communities around mental health and the racism behind it, and parental migration traumas and its impact on children.
This video was developed and sent to you by three Alliance members of the HIV/STI Prevention Project: Asian Community AIDS Services (ACAS), Positive Living Niagara (PLN), and Toronto Latinos Positivos (TLP). The project goal is to support migrant farm workers across Ontario in accessing sexual health services including HIV/STI education and prevention.
Speakers:<br /><br />Cecilia Chung, Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives and Evaluation at Transgender Law Center, is an internationally recognized leader who advocates for HIV/AIDS awareness and access to care, LGBT equality and equity, and human rights. Cecilia has been a vocal advocate for transgender women and people living with HIV. Currently, Cecilia is a member of the PCB NGO delegation at UNAIDS. Cecilia has served many roles in the HIV movement including, the Board of the Asian Pacific Islander Wellness Center, being a founding producer of Trans March, she organized one of the world’s largest annual transgender events which has since been replicated in cities across the U.S. and s member of Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS. In 2015, Cecilia launched Positively Trans, a national, constituents-led project that focus on policy advocacy and leadership development of transgender people living with HIV, especially transgender women of color.<br /><br />Dr. Chum is the Canada Research Chair (tier 2) in Population Health Data Science at York University, and an assistant professor of epidemiology at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. Drawing on the disciplines of social epidemiology, geospatial analytics, and machine learning, Antony’s research investigates the social and environmental determinants of health and evaluate policies to build healthier cities and communities, especially for marginalized groups such as the homeless, low-income, racialized, and LGBTQ2S+ people. His research approach combines population health data sciences, methods in causal inference, and the application of rigorous social theories (e.g. intersectionality, social ecological theory, minority stress theory, etc.) to evaluate interventions/policies aimed at eliminating health disparities.
Arts-based activism and research: More Than Fiction 1, 2, & 3<br />Meaningfully engaging Poz Asians to support the sharing of their experiences within a culturally-safe spac
Feb 6 (Monday) from 7:00-8:30PM.
This story comes from one of ACAS's clients
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